[quote mumsneedwine]@msbehavin totally agree on the right to protest. We should all have that. But why so few masks ? Do they all hate the NHS workers that much. Because it's them that will have to deal with any outbreak fall out from this. Protest safely if you care so much about other people. [/quote]
'But don't you care about the poor NHS workers?!' is all part of the smoke and mirrors, @mumsneedwine.
Why was the NHS overrun with coronavirus cases? Was it because we're all such naughty girls and boys who can't listen to what we're told and won't stay.the.fuck.at.home?
Or was it because:
a) successive (largely Tory) governments have run the NHS into the ground over the past thirty odd years through their underhanded attempts at privatisation, so that they could turn our healthcare system into a for-profit cash cow they and their friends could milk freely from?
b) successive (largely Tory) governments cut funding for the NHS year after year after year, resulting in us having fewer beds, fewer doctors and nurses per head than other European nations?
c) successive (largely Tory) governments refusing to give a meaningful pay rise year after year to NHS workers, resulting in an inability to retain enough staff to fill vacant positions?
d) the Tory government's lies to the public over the Brexit campaign, which has further reduced staffing levels in the NHS, as a sizeable number were EU residents who have now been forced/chosen to leave the UK?
The government's biggest success throughout this whole pandemic has been in convincing a huge number of the population that they are personally responsible for the decision making of an inanimate virus and can be directly blamed for the death of others through carrying out perfectly legitimate day-to-day activities. The paranoia induced by this in the aforementioned masses has resulted in them turning on one another with pointed fingers, rather than looking to the government who has put us in this position through failing to invest adequately in our healthcare system for decades due to them being unable to resist using it as a personal bank account for themselves and their cronies.
And that process of smoke and mirrors, @mumsneedwine, is exactly how dictatorships happen.
So next time you want to bleat on about how we should all be staying at home to protect the NHS, maybe you should stop and think why the NHS needs protecting in the first place.